Perepea Back to the Pilot (1999– ) Online
- Original Title :
- Back to the Pilot
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Animation / Comedy
- Year :
- 1999–
- Directror :
- Dominic Bianchi,Peter Shin
- Cast :
- Seth MacFarlane,Alex Borstein,Seth Green
- Writer :
- Seth MacFarlane,Seth MacFarlane
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 22min
- Rating :
- 8.7/10
Brian and Stewie travel back in time to January 31, 1999 to change history, only to alter the past with dire consequences.
Episode cast overview: | |||
Seth MacFarlane | - | Peter Griffin / Brian Griffin / Stewie Griffin / Glenn Quagmire / Tom Tucker / Kool-Aid Guy (voice) | |
Alex Borstein | - | Lois Griffin (voice) | |
Seth Green | - | Chris Griffin (voice) (archive sound) | |
Mila Kunis | - | Meg Griffin (voice) (credit only) | |
Mike Henry | - | Cleveland Brown (voice) | |
Lacey Chabert | - | 1999 Meg Griffin (voice) (archive sound) | |
Chris Cox | - | George W. Bush (voice) | |
Ralph Garman | - | Dog in the Window (voice) | |
Christine Lakin | - | Joyce Kinney (voice) | |
Phil LaMarr | - | Judge (voice) (archive sound) | |
Fred Tatasciore | - | John Madden (voice) (archive sound) | |
John Viener | - | Terrorist / Tech Guy (voice) | |
Patrick Warburton | - | Joe Swanson (voice) |
The first thing Stewie says when he looks through the window of his 1999 home is: "Oh my God what's wrong with Meg's voice? She sounds like someone who's about to give up a huge opportunity." This is a reference to the fact that Meg's voice was originally done by Lacey Chabert for thirteen episodes before Mila Kunis got the job in the episode "Da Boom" and played the part from that point on.
During their first trip back to 1999, Stewie makes note of two production errors that occurred in the pilot. The first was when Peter's eye goes over his nose when Lois reminds him about the time when he got drunk at church. The second was that, when Peter and his friends are drinking at the stag party and watching TV, the TV isn't plugged in.
While all of the present day and future scenes are animated in 1.78:1 (16:9) widescreen, all of the 1999 scenes are animated in 1.33:1 (4:3). This is because the events shown in the 1999 scenes are from the first episode of Family Guy, entitled "Death Has a Shadow", which was originally animated in 1.33:1.
When they return to the future for the second time, Brian has written the Harry Potter series. This would have been impossible seeing as they only went back to 1999 and the first Harry Potter book was released in 1997.
When Stewie and Brian return to the present and it is revealed that Brian stopped 9/11, Peter mentions an AZ football player named Pat Tillman being tackled by his own team. In reality, Pat Tillman was a football player who joined the military after the 9/11 attacks in support of his country. In 2004, Tillman was killed in a friendly fire incident, thus being killed by his own team.
American Airlines Flight 11 is the flight that Brian takes and stops the hijackers on in this episode because in real life, this is the flight that show creator Seth MacFarlane missed boarding on September 11, 2001, having arrived late due in part to a hangover and an incorrect departure time from his travel agent.
Correction: this is the fifth time Joe walks.
When Peter is accidentally brought back in time, he claims that he was "just looking for the can." This could be a reference to the episode "Road to Germany" where Mort goes into Stewie's time machine thinking it is a port-a-potty.
The plot of this episode bares many similarities to Finas ir Ferbis: Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo: Parts 1 & 2 (2009) as both have the main characters travel back to the first episode of the series, change something in the first episode which creates a bad future, go back in time to undo it, then prevent themselves from traveling through time in the first place to make sure there are no loose ends. Dan Povenmire also used to work on Family Guy before he created Phineas and Ferb.
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